Clinical
verifications.
By George W. Sherbino, M. D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
Berberis-vulgaris in
cervical neuralgia.-A postal clerk was taken with a pain in
his neck, on the right side. Pain began near the right mastoid process,
shooting like lightning to the point of the shoulder and upper arm. He
had to keep perfectly still and extend his head to the left, putting all
of the muscles on the stretch and keeping them that way. The least
motion or relaxing the muscles would cause a sudden cramp, and he would
cry out.I gave Bell and Bry.,
but a close study of the case brought to light the simillimum, which was
Berberis-vulgaris I put one dose on the tongue, and when I called again
in half an hour he could move his head in any direction, without
exciting the cramping in the muscles.
Laurocerasus in
mastodynia.-Mrs. J—. was taken with a pain in the right
scapula about the centre. Constant aching “worse from motion.”
This pain came on after confinement in the first week. She never had it
before. Always dreads to nurse the body, as the pain extends from the
right nipple through to the sore spot in the centre of the scapula. When
the baby begins to nurse she grasps the breast with the right hand, with
a relaxation and contraction. A kneading motion with the hand. This she
keeps up as long as the baby nurses. I asked her why she did this and
she said, without this grasping her breast and punching it in that way
she could not stand the pain. Laurocerasus 1m, one dose, cured.
Dioscorea vil. in
utero-ovarian cardiac reflex.-I was called up at two A. M.
to go and see a young lady suffering great pain. She said the pain began
in the region of the womb and ovaries, then passed up to the heart,
causing a constricted feeling, as if something were tight around the
heart (cact-g., Iod., Lilium-t.), causing great dyspnœa and weak, slow
pulse. When the pain came on it would start from the uterus and ovaries
in paroxysms, and she would scream so the neighbors could hear her. She
would claw at the hypogastric region and at her heart.I asked her where the
pain seemed to go from her heart : “It just goes all over
me.” This led me to think of Dioscorea. I gave one dose. In five
minutes she screamed no more. She was alright in the morning. I was
pleased as well as the patient. Morphine was not needed, although she
begged for it. I used to think this remedy had to be given in the
tincture or even in the fluid extract, because some on else said so.
This case shows the value of the potency.
Lobelia 1m in
cephalagia.-Pain commences in one temple or the other,
passing around over the frontal bone to the other, or the pain may
commence in both temples and seem to pass from one temple to the other.
With this pain there is nausea, dull heavy pain, passing from one temple
to the other, just above the eyebrows. I have never known this remedy to
fail with these symptoms.
Sanicula spring water
cmm (Swan), in catarrhal ophthalmia.-Last winter there came
an epidemic of sore eyes in town, my two boys getting it first. One of
them had so great swelling of the lids that he could with difficulty
open eyes at all, there was a constant straining or effort to keep the
lid up (Caust., Gels.). I never saw so rapid and excessive secretion of
pus from the eyes, it would run down upon the cheeks every few minutes,
requiring to be wiped of. Great photophobia night and day. There was an
amelioration in the morning, but about noon the exacerbation would come
on and increase as the day advanced. In the evening he suffered so from
intolerance of light he could not possibly keep his eyes open. They
would now become agglutinated and remain to until next morning.
Nevertheless we put sweet oil upon the eye-lashes. I gave argentum-nit.
first without any benefit, but for the cold clammy feet I gave Sanicula.I had a good many cases
of this kind to treat, and this remedy acted splendidly.The cold clammy feet
(Calc. carb.), cold clammy sweat on the back of the neck. Both of these
symptoms are in the proving and have been verified a great many times,
and are never-failing indications.
Sanicula spring water
30m (Skinner), in catarrhal ophthalmia.-Mrs. P—., æt.
Thirty-five came to the office for medicine for wore eyes that had been
sore for two or three weeks. The lids were swollen some and the eyeball
red, agglutination at night, relieved by applicator of cold water to the
eyes (Apis). They are worse at night (Merc.). One dose of Sanicula with
S. L. cured. Has had no return since.
Cantharis 39m in
chronic cystitis.-Mr. A. J. C—., æt. Seventy-two, came to
consult me for bladder trouble, which he has had for a number of years.
Has been taking great deal of stuff from the regular profession, but
constantly growing worse.
Symptomatology.-
Urging
desire to urinate, passing only a few drops at a time of highly-colored
urine mixed with blood. Urine very scanty with a cloudy sediment, and at
times there is a white sediment looking like fragments of mortar. There
was urging to urinate from the least quantity of urine in the bladder.
It was worse from walking and better from sitting or lying down.Painfulness from riding
in a wagon or on horseback. Sometimes the urine suddenly stops,
“like stone in the bladder.”He got one dose of
Canth. 39m dry. In a week he wrote me that he was very much better. I
sent him two prescriptions S. L. by mail afterward and he remains well
now for six months. I gave an unfavorable prognosis from the symptoms,
as I thought they all pointed to stone in the bladder and taking into
consideration his old age.DR. GEORGE W. SHERBINO, M. D.,
ABILENE, TEXAS.
Source :
Homœopathic Physician, Feb
1891.Copyright © Sylvain
Cazalet 2001